Good Team Bad Team
By Sarah Thurber + Blair Miller PhD
Know yourself, know your team,
solve your challenge.
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You want to lead a good team―a team that gets results, a team you look forward to working with every day. But many leaders are surprised to find themselves bogged down by people problems. They can’t get people to row in the same direction―or row at all. They have a nagging sense that the team isn’t reaching its full potential. This book is a primer for busy leaders who want actionable ways to build a better team with the people they have. Sarah Thurber and Blair Miller combine their decades of team-building experience with research from the fields of cognitive diversity and creative problem solving to help people lead teams that collaborate, innovate, and get results. Their advice? If you want to lead a good team, don’t follow your instincts. Follow the science.
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meet the authors
The authors of this book are married. And we’re still married, even after writing this book together, which is a testament to how well this stuff works. We hope it helps you and your teams take on big challenges and end up even better together.
is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and team leader. As managing partner at FourSight, she has led a diverse team of experts to develop ways to empower teams to embrace their unique strengths and enhance performance. Thurber works directly with academic researchers, professional facilitators, technical leaders, and designers to spearhead the development of online and print-based tools that support cognitive diversity and creative problem solving. She is coauthor of The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker: How to Make Connections Others Don’t as well as many popular FourSight training manuals and resourses.
Sarah Thurber
PhD, is cofounder and partner at FourSight and president of Blair Miller Innovation. For three decades, he has combined team-building and problem solving facillitation to help teams create new products, patents, and strategic plans. He codeveloped a business simplification process that led to more than $1.8 billion in savings for Fortune 500 clients like Mars and Kraft. Miller has coauthored influential training manuals, published academic articles, and recieved the Distinguished Leadership Award from the Creative Education Foundation. He is an adjunct professor at the Center for Applied Imagination at SUNY Buffalo State University.